Jacktown: History & Hard Times at Michigan's First State Prison
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Competing with the likes of Detroit and Ann Arbor, Jackson won the battle to build Michigan's first state prison in 1838. During the era of the Big House and industrial growth, the penitentiary's onsite factories and cheap inmate labor helped Jackson become a thriving manufacturing city. In contrast to Jacktown's beautiful GrecoRoman exterior, medieval punishments, a strict code of silence, no heat, no electricity and a lack of plumbing defined life on the inside. Author Judy Gail Krasnow...


